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‘Development’ increasingly by- passing the poor
May 22, 2013, 7:31 pm
‘Nothing about us, without us’, South Sudan’s Finance Minister Kosti Manibe Ngal is reported to have said at an international development forum recently. Apparently, the focus of the discussions was a development document titled ‘New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States’, which underlines the importance, among other things, of the political leadership of developing countries ‘owning’ development programmes and of them being the prime movers in the conceptualization and implementation of these projects, in association with the international community, but in no way acting under the diktat of the latter.
The authors of the ‘New Deal’, which was endorsed by the international community at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Busan, South Korea in 2011, was the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding . The ‘Deal’ envisages, essentially, that while the national leadership of the developing world need to be the prime movers of the Third World countries’ development programmes and paradigms,....
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May 22, 2013, 7:36 pmProf G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22, 2013) to my article in The Island of 15th May 2013, argues that the distribution of ethnicit...
New look Berjaya commands greater demand
May 22, 2013, 8:07 pm
Berjaya Hotel Colombo one of the most sought after hotels in Mount Lavinia has been refurbished and upgraded with an investment of Rs 100 million.
SKAL Asian area congress boost for Lanka’s tourism
May 22, 2013, 8:12 pm
Once again Sri Lanka play host to another SKAL event. This time it is the 42nd SKAL Asian Area Congress, which will be held from the 30th May’13 to 2nd June’13. The Jetwing Blue Resort in Negombo has been selected as the v...
Elephant Reach celebrates anniversary in meaningful manner
May 22, 2013, 8:15 pm
The seventh anniversary of the Yala Elephant Reach Hotel, , was celebrated recently in a meaningful manner.
The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment
May 22, 2013, 7:41 pm
As I have shown elsewhere in detail, arguments in support province-based devolution in Sri Lanka based on federal experiences of the community of nation-states are also, for the most part, extremely tenuous. At the time romantic SWRD Bandaranaike...
Mittu Chandilya CEO, AirAsia India
May 22, 2013, 8:11 pm
AirAsia India’s Board of Directors have appointed Mittu Chandilya as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AirAsia India (Private) Limited. Mittu will assume office effective the 1st of June 2013.
Vesak City tours
May 22, 2013, 8:15 pm
Ebert Silva Holidays this Vesak will come alive with colour and spiritual festivity with the popular Colombo City Tour on Vesak days (24,25,26 May) with each tour scheduled for approximately three hours. The tours aboard an...
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